Human Imagination

boredom can be inspiring 🙂 I would say both lead to imagination, I would say most things lead to imagination. I can see the most beautiful girl in the world and be inspired to imagin myself with her, the two of us and our life...blah blah blah. I can also be sitting at home bored out of my mind and dream up a beautiful looking girl. Is not imagination just playing with ideas that have yet to be realised in physical reality? With that are those ideas existing in some form beyond physical reality?

Mmmmm warm fuzzy thoughts 🙂

Originally posted by h0ck3yh0rr0r
more of a philosphical discussion.
Imagine what exists beyond imagination (paradox).
Imagine what came before everything (including God and previous big bangs).Yes, there are limits IMO
How would life be life without imagination. Right now im trying to imagine life without imagination. Well IMO imagination is a good and a bad ability we have. Good because we expand knowledge and we become more "civilized"...but WRONG i think imagination has also made homo-sapeins lazy...hmmm bionomial nomenclature homo-sapien means same wisdom or primate wisdom (wise). It's also cause of war...ok my head hurts someone just post comments lol 🙂

Without imagination, life would be boring. There might not be any wars, but it would be really f***ing bland. We wouldn't have books, movies, art, music, or anything involving creativity. On the other hand, if we didn't have imagination, we wouldn't even think about how boring our lives were.

Imagination is what makes our sensory experience meaningful. It is what makes perception more than the mere physical stimulation of sense organs. It also produces mental imagery which makes it possible to think outside the confines of our perceptual reality. Imagination makes possible all our thinking about what is, what has been and what might be.

Imagination is also what makes us creative and inventive beings. The limit of human creativeness and inventiveness is imagination!

Imagination rocks!!!

Imagination brings you KMC, and the sibject it was created for.........
(that's movies for the thick ones) 🙄

Also things like this

Originally posted by silver_tears
Imagination brings you KMC, and the sibject it was created for.........
(that's movies for the thick ones) 🙄

Yeah, imagination brought us KMC, and the inspiration behind it. I don't think boredom initiated the imagination that came up with KMC, I think inspiration did.

I always felt that imagination has the power to be creative. In literature, Art, Movies, and music. If our world had no imagination there wouldn't be things like entertainment or inspiration. Somehow humans will always be bond to imagination forever.

Do you think imagination or our way of thinking is limited by language or in the way we can explain or express it?

I think the answer to the above question is obvious.

Imagination probably has many different levels, few of us have reached the higher ones for example. Language, mentality, even surroundings are all elements that limit imagination, that's why I think inspiration leads onto imagination, incentive will always be needed. Therefore boredom can also be loosely connected.

Imagination...the thing that gets ruined by TV 😛

No, but seriously, imagination is what got us so far technology and scientificly wise, however, imagination itself has limits.

Originally posted by HockeyHorror
more of a philosphical discussion.
Imagine what exists beyond imagination (paradox).
Imagine what came before everything (including God and previous big bangs).Yes, there are limits IMO
How would life be life without imagination. Right now im trying to imagine life without imagination. Well IMO imagination is a good and a bad ability we have. Good because we expand knowledge and we become more "civilized"...but WRONG i think imagination has also made homo-sapeins lazy...hmmm bionomial nomenclature homo-sapien means same wisdom or primate wisdom (wise). It's also cause of war...ok my head hurts someone just post comments lol 🙂

The other thing about imagination is that it creates fear and a number of other emotions by playing with your sub consiense.

actually the human magination is quite dissapointing. It is impossible to ever have an original idea. Everything we think of is inspired by somthing we've seen,felt or heard somewhere in our lives. All of these experiences mixed with your personality, likes, dislikes, and station in life all combine together to create what we call an original idea.I am sure if we could use more of our minds, we could then venture off in between time and space to experience what an original idea truly is, but if we could do that freely now, this world would be even more dangerous than it is. When you meet people who have no apirations, willpower, or spark to learn they appear many times to have no imagination. I believe many people mix up human will with imagination many times.

Imagination could be viewed as paradox it is two things that contridict one another but still exist. Imagination is both limited and unlimited. For example as ragesremorse posted that all of our suposed original ideas are actualty determined by a set of factors. So there is only so much we can come up with. But its unlimited becasue the more ideas we make the more combinations we can create. Imagination is an offshoot of reality. When we percieve what is real and anlyze it we later begin to experiment with it in our minds, then We see a myraid of posibilities. So in other words imagination is merely a basic process of human phyche. It gives us all things to look up to, dream about and contemplate.

I don't think imaginative things are'fake' because our imagination only uses teh things we know about.It cannot extend beyond this world and since everything in this world is real so is our imagination.

Though I agree that everything your mind does or thinks is inspired by something external (outside your mind, not necessarily outside your own body), you could also go Buddhist-style and say that the mind is the creator of all experience... Everything you see, do, hear, whatever, is interpreted by your mind at some point. Therefore, it's possible to turn something very real into something that isn't there at all. Like, you're in a dark room, and you can't see too clearly, and everything around you can seem a lot scarier if you make it that way with your mind. So it's a combination of the two--the world around you influencing your mind, and your mind interpreting the world around you.

Originally posted by HockeyHorror
more of a philosphical discussion.
Imagine what exists beyond imagination (paradox).
Imagine what came before everything (including God and previous big bangs).Yes, there are limits IMO
How would life be life without imagination. Right now im trying to imagine life without imagination. Well IMO imagination is a good and a bad ability we have. Good because we expand knowledge and we become more "civilized"...but WRONG i think imagination has also made homo-sapeins lazy...hmmm bionomial nomenclature homo-sapien means same wisdom or primate wisdom (wise). It's also cause of war...ok my head hurts someone just post comments lol 🙂

Imagination is one of our most important qualities, because it is something no one can take away from us. It fuels so much, technology, art, music, all stem from imagination no?

Without it I don't think humans would be able to exist, imagination can't be controlled or destroyed, it's with you since birth and till you die, and if you believe in it even in the afterlife.

And yes, imagination can lead to bad things like war, but wars are won and enemies are defeated also thanks to imagination I think.

Imagination is a manifestation of prespective. We all preceive things in different ways. Take in ink blob on a piece of power. One person may see a bird, while another person my see something else entirely. It's said that a child's mind is the most intuitive of all, because they see the world through innocent eyes, everything is new to them. An adult sees everything from a cynical or positive view. So imagination is subjected to the person thinking of it.

Originally posted by Reborn Again
Imagination is a manifestation of prespective. We all preceive things in different ways. Take in ink blob on a piece of power. One person may see a bird, while another person my see something else entirely. It's said that a child's mind is the most intuitive of all, because they see the world through innocent eyes, everything is new to them. An adult sees everything from a cynical or positive view. So imagination is subjected to the person thinking of it.

This I agree with. You're saying that an infant probably has more imagination than an adult because as we grow we learn that things happen in certain ways, but as infants everything has endless possiblities, therefore our imagination becomes limited as we grow? If this is correct, then I do agree. Unfortunately, as children, we have the ability to see almost everything positively, but don't really have the means to express ourselves. Where-as, as adults, we are able to put our views across yet seem to have lost the ability to view things with such imagination.......

IMO, babies are blank pieces of paper, it is what we draw upon them as they grow that puts limitations on them.

Has anyone read Ulysses? The character Stephen Dedalus acts like he was the character in a book of his own life. Which of course he is...although as a counterpoint, Leopold Bloom acts unlike a literary character, and more like a real person- which is paradoxically less like a real person would probably act, it's just the textual barrier that causes the problems.

Anyway yeah. What is real.

Syren: I don't think babies are entirely 'blank pieces of paper', because that ignores a priori knowledge and capabilities.

"IMO, babies are blank pieces of paper, it is what we draw upon them as they grow that puts limitations on them"

If you just let a kid grow up it would learn things and imply limitations of it's own.

-AC